The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-28


But We call all men 10 witness
That we stand up without shame!
Nay Send il forth to all the world
That we stand up here with pride,
With love for our living comrades
And with praise for those who died;
And in this manly frame of mind
Till death we will abide.
COP and our consciences alone
Give us measures Of right and wrong.
The race may fall unto the swift
And the battle TO the strong;
But the truth will shine in history
And blossom into Song.
Human grief full oft by glory
Is assuaged and disappears
When its requiem swellS with music
Like the shock of shields and spears,
And its passion is too full of pride
To leave a space for tears
And hence to-day, my Countrymen,
We come, with undimmed eyes,
In homage Of the hero Lee,
The good. the great, the wise
And at his name our hearts Will leap
Till his last old soldier dies.
Ask me. il so you please, to paint
Stormwiuds upon the sea;
Tell me TO weigh great Cheops-
Set volcanic forces free;
But bid me not, my Countrymen,
To picture Robert Lee
AS Saul, bound for Damascus fair.
Was struck blind by sudden light
So my eyes are panied and dazzed
BY radiance pure and white
Shot back by the FURNISHED armor
OF that glory-belted Knight.
His was all the Norman's polish
And sobriety Of grace;
All the Goth's majestic figure;
All the Romans noble face;
And he stood the tall exemplar
Of grand historic race.
Baronial were his acres where
Potomac's waters run;
High ms lineage, and his blazon
Was by cunning heralds done;
But better still he might have said
OF his works he was the SON
Truth walked beside him always
From his caildhood's early years,
Honor followed as his shadow
VGlor lighteaed all his cares;
And he rode-that grand Virginian-~
Last of all the Cavaliers.
As a soldier we all knew him
Great in action and repOse,
Saw how his genius kindled
And his mighty spirit rose
When the four quarters of the globe
EncompaSsed him with foes
But he and his grew Drawer
As the danger grew more rife,
AvariciouS they of glory
But most prodigal of life,
And the Army of Virginia"
Was the Atlas of the strife.
AS his troubles gathered round him,
Thick as waves that beat the shore
ATRA CURA rode behind him
Famine's shadow filed his door,
Still he wrought deeds no mortal man
Had ever wrought before.
Then came the end, my Countrymen,
The last thunderbolts were hurled.
Worn out by his own victories
His ttle-fiags were furled,
And history was finished
That has changed the modern world.
As some saint in the arena
OF bloody Roman game
AS the prize of his endeavor
Put on an immortal frame,
Through long agonies our s-oldier
Won the crown of martial fame.
But, there came greater glory
To that man supremacy great
when his Just sword he laid aside
In peace TO serve his State)
For in his classic solitude
He rose up and mastered Fate.
He triumphed and he did not die!-
No funeral bells are tOlled-
But on that day in Lexington
Fame came herself to hold
His stirrup while he mounted
4 a. . H.. 80. ...t. 81
He is not dead. There is no DEATH
He only went before,
His Journey on when CHRIST THE LORD
Wide open held the door,
And a calm, celestial peace is his;
Thank God forevermore.
When the efigy of Washington
In its bronze was reared on high
Twas mine, with others, now long gone,
Beneath a stormy sky,
To utter 10 the multitude
His name that cannot die.
And here to-day, my Countrymen,
l tell you Lee shall ride
With that great rebel down the years
Twin rebels. - side by side =
And confronting such a vision
All our grief gives place to pride.
These two shall ride immortal
And shall ride abreast of Time,
Shall light up stately history
And blaze in Epic Rhyme
Both patriots, both Virginians true,
Both rebels, " both sublime.
Our past is full of glory,
1t is a Shut-in sea,
The Pillars overlooking it
Are Washington and Lee
And a future spreads before us,
Not unworthy of the free.
And here and now, my Countrymen,
Upon this sacred sod,
Let us feel: II was Our FATHER"
Who above us held the rod,
And from hills to sea
Like Robert Lee
Bow reverently to COP.
capt. McCabe'S recitation of the poe
S mastery in its manner, and was Fl
emily interrupted with applause.
COL. MARsHALL's GRAFTON.
zen. Early next introduced Col. Char
.rshall, military secretary of Gen. Il.
e, who delivered the Grafton of the da
The address of Col. Charles Marshall W
lg and mainly historical, but it was We
eresting. Among the anecdotes which
d was the following:
ome years ago l received letter from
ieral soldier informing me that, as | mig
lire to have personal incidents connected wi
Il. Lee, he would be glad to furnish me wi
:, which had occurred under his own ubserI
o, and which he thought ought TO be told, a
my request he narrated the following circul
nee. That may not detract from It's interes
i'll let him tell it in his own simple way:
DEAR SIR: Yours of late date received a
tents noted. The information about the Ia
rented Gen. Lee which | wish to commu
e to you, is as follows
On the 10th of August. 1864. was engag
battle with the Confederate army. / |
ged TO the Tenth Cops, United States arm
4. Foster commanding division. About
lock, afternoon, the enemy drove us befo
IN. Before that, we had gained several lin
pits, etc, but at that time they swept doN
On us, carrying all before them. We foug
brave as We could, but it was of no avail
ught at the time that it had taken "a sudd
n and could not account for it. was TAX
soner with about 800 others. l had not q
hundred yards from the works VIII
saw Gen. zee standing beside